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wind and solar industries are filling our landfills with waste
Published: Sunday, May 18th, 2025 @ 10:50 am
By: John Steed
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RALEIGH: Today, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) awarded a $10 million grant to The Industrial Commons, an industry focused nonprofit in western North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, November 21st, 2023 @ 2:57 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Do you hate those paper straws with every fiber of your being? Well, good news — you might have a medical and environmental excuse never to use them again. Turns out, new information suggests they are worse for both you and the planet.
Published: Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 @ 12:38 am
By: Daily Wire
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RALEIGH: North Carolina continues to lead the way addressing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS. Last week, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) took key steps to develop state surface water and groundwater standards for PFAS compounds.
Published: Sunday, September 10th, 2023 @ 9:12 am
By: Governor's Office
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Hillary and Chelsea Clinton recently attended a Broadway show together, and someone reportedly left something near them in the aisle that sent an aromatic message.
Published: Monday, April 3rd, 2023 @ 12:22 am
By: Daily Wire
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Treasured Pirates recognized for outstanding contributions to ECU
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 12:50 pm
By: ECU News Services
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'an overt dereliction of duty by DOE'
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 @ 6:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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How the push to adopt solar energy for homes may ironically lead to dangerous heavy metal contamination
Published: Sunday, July 24th, 2022 @ 9:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The new North Carolina budget has many positive elements, with notable tax cuts and school choice expansion. On balance, there is more good than bad.
Published: Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 12:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recycled masks may improve roads, help environment
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 8:30 am
By: ECU News Services
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NCACC Weekly Update — April 23
Published: Monday, April 26th, 2021 @ 7:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina is poised to make great gains as we recover from the pandemic.
Published: Saturday, April 10th, 2021 @ 1:10 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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As candidates for their respective offices, both Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein took bold stands defending electricity consumers from being made to pay for coal ash cleanup costs.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 4:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. House members took on a host of time-sensitive issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic during a Wednesday, April 29, meeting of the House Pensions and Retirement Committee.
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 @ 1:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This week Bloomberg Energy issued an attention-grabbing report on a serious waste problem with wind turbines: retired turbine blades are clogging up landfills.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 4:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bloomberg Energy this month issued an attention-grabbing report on a serious waste problem with wind turbines: Retired turbine blades are clogging up landfills.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 2:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2020 @ 5:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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America Recycles Day is an opportunity to recognize the importance of recycling to our Nation’s economy and environment.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 4:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There is an unfinished piece of business from Beaufort County's now expired wind and solar farm moratorium.
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 8:00 am
By: Conservative Voter
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If North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a $5 billion tax increase, his Republican rivals would be both furious and gleeful — furious about the potential economic consequences, that is, and gleeful about the political ones.
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Just days after warning of the need to regulate solar panel disposal, Sen. Paul Newton, R-Cabarrus, scrapped his bill for a relaxed version.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 10:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources voted Thursday, June 13, to send Senate Bill 568 to the Finance Committee amid protests from some committee members.
Published: Monday, June 17th, 2019 @ 9:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If all the solar panels from industrial-scale electric plants in North Carolina were laid end to end, they would stretch from Raleigh to San Francisco and back nearly four times.
Published: Saturday, June 15th, 2019 @ 1:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Duke Energy intends to challenge a state Department of Environmental Quality order to excavate all its coal ash pits, saying it would impose undue financial harm.
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2019 @ 6:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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An East Carolina University construction management professor and a local construction company have teamed up in search of a solution to a problem facing the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT)
Published: Monday, March 18th, 2019 @ 9:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Although top national environmental regulators confirmed GenX and related chemical compounds are used to produce solar panel components, they say their research does not prioritize what risks that might pose to the environment and human health
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2018 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Utility Commission will weigh whether the GenX compound that has polluted the Cape Fear River Basin could contaminate the Wilkinson Solar Plant in the Terra Ceia community of Beaufort County
Published: Saturday, May 26th, 2018 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you eat leftovers, you may be in the minority. I was astounded when I saw this headline: "Food is so cheap, Americans have stopped eating leftovers."
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 @ 9:08 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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North Carolina House Bill 56 got a lot of press earlier this fall when the General Assembly overrode the governor’s veto of the legislation
Published: Monday, December 4th, 2017 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Every two months North Carolinians throw away enough trash to fill dumpsters, lined back to back, across the entire length of Interstate 40. Our 10 million residents generate some 12 million tons of trash each year
Published: Thursday, November 23rd, 2017 @ 10:50 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Continuing our strong record of eliminating and simplifying job-killing rules, both the Senate and House of Representatives voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes of House Bill 56 and Senate Bill 16 this past week
Published: Saturday, October 7th, 2017 @ 9:57 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill that devotes state funding to address the controversial chemical GenX in the Cape Fear River, setting up a political war of words with legislative leaders
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 @ 3:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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